New Relic weapon quest - are we down to 1 hour content already?

[Jennah]

My only complaint is that now I have to wait a few more months before I find out if they're really planning on re-skinning Eureka or not.
(On the off-chance they're still deciding: please SE, please. Don't. I'll grind out 16000 poetics per weapon - hell, 60,000 per - before I ever set foot in an Eureka clone again.)

[Kalise]

Even if the others do have more/longer steps, you're not exactly describing them in equal terms.

I pretty much am.

A new field zone

You mean the new little area to idle about in or queue up for Savage to get better gear than the relic if you haven't already completed it in how many weeks since it dropped?

unique dungeon with multiple bosses (and story for those who care)

Excuse me? Dungeon?

No, we got a solo duty. A one time, solo duty.

Eureka came with an entire new zone, with new mechanics and a plethora of non-Relic loot to attain too (Mounts, Furniture, Glamour items, actual useable trinkets like Strider's Boots) - This is all included with the first step of Eureka.

The story was really nice, but at the end of the day, little more than the story we got about each of the fabled Zodiac Braves whom wielded the Zodiac weapons or the story about how we create artificial life of a weapon or the story behind the fate of Eureka.

and unique EX trial.

This is about all that is actually on par with the very first relics and their unique trials. Though, it's not actually necessary to do it at all in order to get your relic weapon so it's hard to consider if it's actually part of the Relic package or if it's just a random extra EX Trial added at the same time.

I just don't see the appeal of having to farm FATEs to gather up huge amounts of crystals.

Farming FATEs has little appeal for me either.

But having to do something would at least provide incentive to actually play more.

Like, even having to do the EX Trial at least ONCE would at least be something. But no, it's currently, just do a solo duty and get free loot.

If you don't want to put yourself through that... why is it appealing to be required to do them, if you wouldn't want to spend your time on it otherwise?

Because doing things to earn a reward is literally how gear treadmill games work?

If Savage didn't offer gear, no-one would play them. If Ultimate didn't give rewards, no-one would play it. If dungeons didn't offer tomestones, no-one would run them after doing their MSQ.

If we continue down the line of "If you don't want to put yourself through that" then what next? Free Savage gear for logging in to the game because many people don't like/want to do Savage raiding?

[Tlamila]

The only thing I don't like is that they kind of invalidate the Ruby ex weapons.

But at this point people already have Crystarium weapons and ES weapons which already invalidate those even more, and the former is even easier to get than the Ruby EX one.

[Scott]

I really liked the way they started this new Relic Chain.

[Listrella]

Well we were warned this first step would not take long, the remaining steps will be far more grindy they devs have said. I enjoyed this content for the short time it lasted, if it makes you feel any better than new crafter and gatherer relics are a little more grindy.

[Genjuro]

Sounds like someone wants the pain of Atma farming before the nerf again. Took me 3 days of running fates to get 1 atma.. no thanks.

[Cetek14]

I have a feeling devs will use this topic as an excuse to give us 500 hour light farm as next step.

[Vidu]

...why do people ignore the EX-trial that we got with this quest-chain to unlock the armor? That should keep one busy for more than an hour, right...?

[Skivvy]

Unpopular opinion, but I'm quite happy this first step is mindless. I've not been playing all that much in recent months, and my gear/weapons probably reflect that a bit. This is a nice stepping stone to get back to a decent level, and fast.

[Malmstrom]

Time to farm more poetics!

I don't want to farm more poetics.